Re: Influence of discourse pragmatics on children's referring expressions
Gerlind Hauser
I did something related, but not exactly your question: I looked at it
from the comprehension side: 21-month-old infants' comprehension of
ambiguous reference on the basis of pure pragmatic cues (no gestures or
gazes, no verbal cue for disambiguation).
For the production the relevant studies I know would be Daniela
O'Neill's 1996 paper showing that by 27 months children tailor their
requests according to what the parent knows, then Nayer & Graham 2006
with a similar approach but with novel and familiar objects. And it also
reminds me of what Danielle Matthews has been doing lately. She is on
the list - so you might contact her.
What do you mean by the influence of the discourse context: In what kind
of situation children are?
Best,
Gerlind Hauser
Ozlem Ece Demir wrote:
> Hi,
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> I would be very happy to have a discussion on children' sensitivity to
> perceptual availability and discourse context and the influence of
> these factors on children's choice of referring terms. Is there anyone
> doing research on this issue?
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> Best,
> Ozlem Ece Demir
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